SYN: Following, order, succession, series, consequence, progression, continuity, posteriority.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
heathen, S, S2, C3, PP; hathene , S; heaðene , S; hæðene , S.—AS. hǽðen .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Después que la cosecha se recoje y se seca, cuesta poco trabajo conducirla a lomo de mula por los senderos menos transitables en apariencia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
‘I thought it must be near three,’ she said, calmly pouring from the cup into the basin, and steeping the linen as before.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Assayen , v. to examine, to attack, S2, S3, C2, P; asaien , W2; asayen , S3; assaied , pp. , W.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Such are permittō in Sallust and Livy, concēdō , also sinō , mostly in the imperative, chiefly in old Latin and poetry, and the impersonal licet (used thus often in Cicero, rarely before or after): as, supplēmentum scrīberent cōnsulēs, permissum , L. 27, 22, 11, leave was given that the consuls might fill up the army . sine sciam , L. 2, 40, 5, let me know . sine modo adveniat senex , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
And the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out of his shocked state.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
"Even the brutes bespoke the harmony of creation; for, singular to say, we saw several crows perched on the backs of swine!"
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
Would anyone believe that a simple sternutation could produce such ravages on a quadrupedal organism?
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
In returning, a somewhat shabby carriage passed us, with one or two outriders, and an old gentleman inside.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare
My young master was plunging about the sandy soil crushing potato tops under his angry feet.
— from Bonnie Prince Fetlar: The Story of a Pony and His Friends by Marshall Saunders
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